An architect of ObamaCareon
Tuesday said he regretted his 2013 comment that a "lack of
transparency" and the "stupidity of the American voter" helped
Congress pass the healthcare law.

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyProfessor Jonathan Gruber made his first public
comments on MSNBC after conservative media unearthed
a video clip over the weekend of him discussing the healthcare
law.

"The comments in the video were made at an academic
conference," Gruber said on "Ronan Farrow Daily." "I was
speaking off the cuff. I basically spoke inappropriately. I regret having made
those comments."

Gruber was speaking on a panel last year when he suggested
that ObamaCare passed because lawmakers and voters did not understand how its
financing worked.

"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,”
Gruber said at the time. "And basically, call it the stupidity of the
American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for
the thing to pass."

Gruber also said that ObamaCare was written in a
"tortured way" to avoid a bad score from the Congressional Budget
Office (CBO). And he suggested that voters would have rejected the law if
penalties for being uninsured were interpreted as a tax.

"If you had a law that made it explicit that healthy
people are going to pay in and sick people are going to get subsidies, it would
not have passed," he added.

The clip is generating significant attention on the right.

On Tuesday, Gruber said he only meant that much of
ObamaCare's financing was done through the tax code, calling that more
"politically palatable" than other means.

"That was the only point I was making," he said.

A consultant on both the federal and Massachusetts
healthcare reform laws, Gruber also predicted that 2015 exchange enrollments
will exceed the administration's target of 9.1 million.

"The administration is being conservative," he
said. "I believe the number is likely to be higher than that."

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John M. Deutch is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank).

Note:
Foundation to Promote Open
Society was
a funder for the Urban Institute (think
tank), the Committee for Economic
Development, the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle,a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

David M. Rubenstein is the president of the Economic Club of Washington, a co-chairman
for the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a friend of Thomas E.
Donilon.

Thomas E. Donilon
is a friend of David M. Rubenstein,
was the White House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank),and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Breene
M. Kerr was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank), and a life member
emeritus for the Corporation of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Laura D'Andrea
Tyson was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),and a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.

Louis
W. Cabot is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank),and was a life
member emeritus for the Corporation of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),anda life member of
the Corporation of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)

Lois Dickson Fitt is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), Susan E. Rice’s mother, and was a guest
scholar at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).

Susan E. Rice is Lois Dickson Fitt’s daughter, the White House national security
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, a stockholder in the TransCanada
Corporation, and was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

John F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration, and
married to Teresa Heinz Kerry.

Teresa Heinz Kerry is married to John F. Kerry, an honorary trustee at
the Brookings Institution (think tank), a trustee at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and a life
trustee at the Carnegie Mellon University.

Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the endowed
predecessor schools for the Carnegie
Mellon University,
and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).

L. Rafael Reif is a trustee at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John M. Deutch is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank).

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